Updates:- Tinted the land a light shade of brown and darkened the water to make it more clear which is which. (Was originally slightly confusing at first glance.)

- Made the rest of the map German since most of the text was already in German. Translation of the title can be found below for those who need it.

- Changed the markers for the regional capitals of Mecklenburg and the Pomeranias to regular city markers for the sake of consistency.

The title on the map means "The Kingdom of Brandenburg Following the Edict of Trier 1622"

A map of the Kingdom of Brandenburg to go with the flag I made...God, July 2011? Seriously? Time passes too fast these days. [link]

The Hohenzollerns had a different set of failures and successes here. It's more nautically oriented than the OTL Brandenburg/Prussia, not that that's much of an accomplishment. Prussia was never even secularized as a Lutheran duchy here.

The year is pretty much just a placeholder at this point. The Edict of Trier is supposed to be the end of some sort of very alternate Thirty Years War. (Which didn't last thirty years or started or ended at the same time) The end result is a dissolution/split of the HRE as a result of an even more antagonistic relationship between *Protestants and Catholics than OTL. The whole thing's pretty vague at this point. I pretty much just wanted to illustrate the Brandenburg I had in mind when I made the flag last summer.

I wouldn't know; I am not very familiar with how Photoshop works or what it can do.

I used GIMP to make this, and GIMP can open .psd files, but due to differences in how the two programs interpret layers, there's usually some weird issues. Assuming there's no way to make lines like this in Photoshop, I suppose you could always first finish what you need to do in Photoshop, export it as a .png, and then add in the extra lines you want in GIMP.

Wow great I´ll test it in the next days! If it´s that easy I shall be able tohandle it. I really wonder why Photoshop has so much, but no good dotted linestool or option. The one it has sucks actually^^

No problem! You can get other types of dotted lines with the method I mentioned as well, but the type I mentioned is my personal favorite.

It could be that Photoshop does have a method for generating good dotted lines, but I am not experienced enough with it to tell. I only have it because I needed it to edit flag and shield templates for EU2, and haven't really used it much.

Tangermünde sounds really cool, but I like central-positionated capitals more^^

It´s really awesome, how the Prussian-Brandenburger could make out of that sandy, bad regions a great-power of Europe. You know it was called: Die Streubüchse des Reiches. Something like: The sand-box of the empire. XD

Because Brandenburg has a bad ground and had many swamps. But discipline and order changed it^^

Yes, I read as much in the Iron Kingdom. I believe the territories around Berlin were even referred to as a desert at one point. Regardless of what one thinks about the Hohenzollerns in general, one can't deny that they had a lot of able administrators on their family tree.

I haven't decided what to do with Austria yet. I am half tempted to have the Habsburgs succeed in reclaiming this ancestral lands in Switzerland, only to be kicked out of Austria proper by Corvinus' Black Brigade. The "Archduchy of Swabia" has a nice ring to it, does it not?

Ah yes, I do quite like the United Duchies. I feel I have to be careful about what I meddle with thereabouts, however. The Lower Rhenish territories will be heavily featured in my more serious Burgundy/Lotharingia timeline, so I don't want to give them too great a role here.

Brandenburg was never a kingdom historically, but it was given a royal title during or after the war leading to the "Edict of Trier" and the great split of the Holy Roman Empire in this alternate timeline. ^^

"Das Königreich Brandenburg nach dem Trier Edikt 1622" then?

I really should try actually learning German one of these days, considering how often I do things related to the HRE. @_@

I normally wouldn't come up with something like a Kingdom of Brandenburg without a Napoleonic PoD, but that didn't fit with what I had in mind when I came up with this, so the only solution I could think of was an earlier dissolution of the HRE following a very bloody religious struggle.

...I came up with a scenario like this almost solely because the "Kingdom of Brandenburg" sounded and looked really cool, to be honest.